The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (1903)

Seitenzahl:

108

Gewicht:

168 g

Erschienen bei:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Kurzbeschreibung

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Miss Rebecca Sharp to Miss Amelia Sedley, Russell Square, London (Free.?Pitt Crawley.) " My DEAREST, SWEETEST AMELIA, " With what mingled joy and sorrow do I take up the pen to write to my dearest friend! Oh, what a change between to-day and yesterday ! Now I am friendless and alone; yesterday I was at home, in the sweet company of a sister, whom I shall ever, ever cherish! " I will not tell you in what tears and sadness I passed the fatal night in which I separated from you. You went on Tuesday to joy and happiness, with your mother and your devoted young soldier by your side; and I thought of you all night, dancing at the Perkins's, the prettiest, I am sure, of all the young ladies atthe Ball. I was brought by the groom in the old carriage to Sir Pitt Crawley's town house, where, after John the groom had behaved most rudely and insolently to me (alas! 'twas safe to insult poverty and misfortune!), I was given over to Sir P.'s care, and made to pass the night in an old gloomy bed, and by the side of a horrid gloomy old charwoman, who keeps the house. I did not sleep one single wink the whole night. " Sir Pitt is not what we silly girls, when we used to read Cecilia at Chiswick, imagined a baronet must have been. Anything, indeed, less like Lord Orville cannot be imagined. Fancy an old, stumpy, short, vulgar, and very dirty man, in old clothes and shabby old gaiters, who smokes a horrid pipe, and cooks his own horrid supper in a saucepan. He speaks with a country accent, and swore a great deal at the old charwoman, at the hackney coachman who drove us to the inn where the coach went from, and on which I made the journey outside for the greater part of the way. " I was awakened at daybreak by the charwoman, and having ...

Portrait

William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 in Calcutta geboren, studierte Jura und war danach journalistisch tätig, u.a. bei der Satirezeitschrift "Punch". Neben seinem Freund Charles Dickens ist er der bedeutendste Romanautor des viktorianischen England.

Mehr über...

Mehr von: 

Mehr von:  William Makepeace Thackeray, Cambridge Scholars Publishing